Skynet Is Real, But it Won’t Destroy Us (Hopefully)

It was oddly appropriate that director James Cameron introduced the world to Skynet—the fictional super AI which sought to eradicate humanity—in 1984.

According to Terminator lore, Skynet was created in the then-future 1990s to remove the human element from US nuclear defenses. But then Skynet became self-aware, initiated a global nuclear holocaust, and created an army of killer bots to take out the survivors, yadda yadda yadda.